Social Impact Investment Program - Social Enterprise Loan Fund (SELF)

Overview

The Australian Government is inviting a single provider via a Closed Non-Competitive process to apply to deliver services under the Social Impact Investment Program - Social Enterprise Loan Fund (SELF or the Fund) from December 2025 to December 2029, administered by the Department of Social Services (the department) under Outcome 2.1 Families and Communities – Social Impact Investment. As a stand-alone initiative, the SELF will contribute to the work of the Social Impact Investing Unit, whose aims include testing the effectiveness of different financial models to address social disadvantage. The Fund recognises that access to affordable capital is a significant barrier to the growth of the social enterprise market. It also recognises the unique challenges that employment-focused social enterprises face due to the complexity and associated costs of their workforce. The objectives of the SELF are: to trial the provision of small concessional loans to Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) and other social enterprises with a core mission of employing disadvantaged people support and grow the social enterprise sector, as well as support the development of the intermediary and impact investing sectors.